Re: Printing a PDF or PS doc

(someone wrote)
(snip)

>
 Nowadays I would expect that most large shops can deliver the data
> directly from the mainframe over an LPR/LPD conversation to a UNIX or
> Windows print server or can somehow drive a direct attached IP
> printer. The secret in this case is to make sure the original ASCII
> document is not translated to ASCII again and thus destroying its
> content. Locally we reserve JES SYSOUT class T to mean "transparent"
> assuring that any "binary" document (graphic image of any flavor or
> any other file for that matter including PDF) is not retranslated.

In addition, note that the conversion from PDF to PS is fairly
simple.  It should be possible to do that on the mainframe and
then send the ASCII (or binary) PS file to an IP connected
PostScript printer.

-- glen

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